On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:22, you wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Nonsense. I run SuSE server(s), the update mechanism is excellent and > > free. rpm hell? You must have misunderstood something. It never > > happened to me. On my desktop, I can tick "automatic", and each time I > > log in (or I click a little con in the panel), it checks for updates, > > The server-relevant point here is that this update process must be > completely automatic - i.e. not waiting for a user to log on to a > graphical desktop. You must be overflowing with trust in your Linux distributor. I think I'd prefer to stay in control of the exercise.
None the less, a Gentoo install would allow you to have the command:- emerge --update world in a cron job. [ ... good advice about not having an X-Server on a server machine ... ] -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
